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- ✓Explore. Equal Earth, Globe and Mercator, one continuous zoom between them, folding into a real street map (OpenStreetMap via MapLibre) at close range.
- ✓Compare. Drag any two countries, historical unions, or continents onto each other at true scale. Measure the great-circle distance between two points.
- ✓Learn. Seven guided stories that move the map ("How big is Africa, really?", "How small is Greenland, really?", "The Earth's imaginary lines", "Why do we have seasons?", "What time is it there?", "Is the Sun ever straight overhead?", "How far is far?"), and short chapters on the history of maps. Each has its own page to read.
- ✓Play. Two daily games. Today's five asks which of two countries is bigger, and shows why a pair can look closer in size than it is. Find it asks you to tap continents, oceans, lines and places.
- ✓A live solar system with every planet where it is today. A page for the Sun, the Moon and every planet, with the same map on each. Mars's and the Moon's landmarks, and whole worlds, brought to the Earth at true size.
- ✓The real night sky behind every view: 9,096 stars where they really are, the Milky Way, and the constellations if you want them.
- ✓A page for each of the 242 countries and territories, and the whole list as open data.
- ✓Lesson guides for primary geography and for Year 5 Earth and space, a page for schools, French throughout, and offline use after the first visit.
- ✓Three looks: Midnight, Zinc, and Light for projectors. A scene control for time of day, night lights, the Milky Way and the aurora.
- ✓A full-screen expand view on both desktop and mobile, for presenting or screenshotting the map alone.
Learn roadmap2
Learn is the part of EqualGlobe most likely to keep growing. It's the cheapest place to add a real idea without touching the map engine itself, since every chapter and story is just a sequence of moves the map can already make.
- More stories beyond the seven on the Earth. Candidates include the Gall-Peters controversy told as its own walkthrough (right now it's one chapter, "The equal-area rebels"), and a story built around Togo, given its role carrying the 2026 resolution to the UN.
- More lesson guides: secondary geography, and curricula beyond England's, starting with French-speaking West Africa.
Under consideration7
Not committed, not scheduled. Things worth naming so the direction is visible, not things you should expect by a date.
- A classroom mode: pupils' screens follow the teacher's, with a short code and no accounts.
- Countries printed at one true scale, to cut out and lay over each other on a classroom table.
- Maps of population, forests or ice on the equal-area map, where a shaded area can be trusted.
- A package for offline school platforms, for schools that are rarely online.
- Live, sourced context per place, such as the weather, alongside a country's area and its local time.
- A quiet, optional way to support the project directly, since it carries no ads and no paywall.
- Deeper coverage of disputed and limited-recognition territories' history, beyond the dashed-outline convention the map already uses.
What we won't do3
- ✕No metered map API (Google Maps, Mapbox). The data stays Natural Earth (public domain) and OpenStreetMap (open, attributed), so the map never depends on a vendor's pricing.
- ✕No accounts, no login, no tracking beyond optional, cookieless, anonymous analytics. See the privacy page.
- ✕No paywall on the map itself. Classrooms are the primary audience; nothing here should cost a school anything.